science
Original: science on Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal
Transcript
Panel 1:
Woman (a blonde woman in a yellow shirt, off to the side): Do you think true knowledge is intrinsically good?
Man (a man with dark curly hair, wide eyes, glasses, green shirt and red scarf): Absolutely. That's why we must destroy science.
Panel 2:
Man: Science constantly provides new insights - true facts, relations, ways of thinking about things, ALL OF WHICH most of us know nothing about.
Panel 3:
Man: The more successful science is, the greater our ignorance. Since ignorance is objectively bad, the only ethical move is to destroy science.
Panel 4 (silhouettes against a night landscape):
Woman: So then why haven't we done it?
Man: Fortunately, most people are ignorant of logic.
Votey:
A hand-drawn line graph. The vertical axis is labeled "general ignorance" and the horizontal axis is labeled "specific knowledge." An arrow rises steeply from lower-left to upper-right, showing that general ignorance increases as specific knowledge increases.
Woman (a blonde woman in a yellow shirt, off to the side): Do you think true knowledge is intrinsically good?
Man (a man with dark curly hair, wide eyes, glasses, green shirt and red scarf): Absolutely. That's why we must destroy science.
Panel 2:
Man: Science constantly provides new insights - true facts, relations, ways of thinking about things, ALL OF WHICH most of us know nothing about.
Panel 3:
Man: The more successful science is, the greater our ignorance. Since ignorance is objectively bad, the only ethical move is to destroy science.
Panel 4 (silhouettes against a night landscape):
Woman: So then why haven't we done it?
Man: Fortunately, most people are ignorant of logic.
Votey:
A hand-drawn line graph. The vertical axis is labeled "general ignorance" and the horizontal axis is labeled "specific knowledge." An arrow rises steeply from lower-left to upper-right, showing that general ignorance increases as specific knowledge increases.
Alt text
A four-panel comic. A blonde woman in yellow asks a wide-eyed man with dark curly hair, glasses, a green shirt and red scarf: "Do you think true knowledge is intrinsically good?" He replies, "Absolutely. That's why we must destroy science." He explains that science constantly provides new insights and true facts that most people know nothing about, so the more successful science is, the greater our ignorance; since ignorance is objectively bad, the only ethical move is to destroy science. In the final panel, shown as silhouettes against a night sky, the woman asks why they haven't done it, and he answers, "Fortunately, most people are ignorant of logic." The votey (aftercomic) shows a hand-drawn line graph with a steeply rising arrow: the y-axis is labeled "general ignorance" and the x-axis "specific knowledge," illustrating that the more specific knowledge exists, the more there is for any individual to be ignorant of.
Transcribed by Claude Opus 4.8.